Considering 20 elections in countries that were experiencing a democratic transition. Measuring the mean average precision (MAP) of different methods (our is “entities”) on the Proceedings of the US Congress. Percentage of documents that are not retrieved when using the event-name for creating event-collections.

Authors: Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Laura Dietz Affiliation: Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim Presented at: NLP+CSS – WebSci 2016 (Hannover) [Paper] Gold standard of entities related to named events.    

Hi! I’m Federico Nanni, PhD Student in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Maurizio Matteuzzi and Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and this is my old-style academic home page. My work is focused on the issues that arise when using born digital documents as primary sources to conduct research in contemporary history. In particular the goal of… Continue reading Historical method, born digital sources and other fancy stuff